You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the r
be plenty of people who are trying to uncover their identities. and john prosecutors have refused to reveal the witness list with the defense and they re citing trump s previous tweets it s about witnesses, judge more sean says that he won t be forcing them to hand it over. do you think the judge made the right move i think he did. he was he was sent me a message and that move that indeed he agreed that mr. trump could have used the information so they ve withheld until very late on sunday night. there apparently going to give the first witness that the government has gone to call. but they the protocol is and the courtesy is normally to provide who your first three or six witnesses might be, so that the defense can prepare and be ready for cross-examination because of trump s tweets because his effort to influence the proceedings through out-of-court statements he has put them as potential targets,
to take weeks was over and just days after the judge yesterday swore in 12 jurors, as well as six alternates. let s discuss all this with cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel john dean jon. thank you so much for being with us. thank picture. a jury was just seated for the first ever criminal trial of a former us president. you of course know a thing or two about big political moment. so what do you make of this moment? head of those opening statements on monday the company a lot of focus on this trial worldwide because it is a unique situation. and the government is going to lay out its case. as you said, there ll be opening statements and the government will paint a picture of behavior that it thinks is criminal. so that s what mr. trump isn t four and the world is waiting to hear that story. because while we think we know it the prosecutors will have facts, we don t know in john? so much focus also on the